Orbital reflectors could boost solar energy around dusk and dawn
Wednesday 31 Jan 2024
Researchers at the University of Glasgow suggest that the falling cost of access to space might enable steered, space-based reflectors to boost power output from large solar farms for a around quarter of an hour during critical peak periods when the sun would otherwise be too low in the sky.
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